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- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
No reasons at at like that really if you think about it
To produce 1 kg of protein from kidney beans required approximately eighteen times less land, ten times less water, nine times less fuel, twelve times less fertilizer and ten times less pesticide in comparison to producing 1 kg of protein from beef
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
There are environmental and ethical reasons to do this. Not just cost
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s such a great moral logic given that this also applies to human children
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
37 videos
I appreciate the commitment to the bit
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
“swap beans for meat” is a valid way to say “beans instead of meat”
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
So true
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think your cans are supposed to have holes in them
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
“for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
There are things that are in a tofu like shape. I’ve bought pre-made Chickpea Tofu at the store before though it has a very different texture and taste than soy based tofu. I’ve also heard of Pumfu (Pumpkin Seed Tofu) as a thing you can buy. Looking it up there’s a ton more that I hadn’t heard of like fava bean, split yellow pea, split green pea, pigeon tofu, red lentil, sunflower seed, and more though I’d assume those you’d probably have to make it yourself instead of being able to buy?
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
Tragic on the bean front, but there are some other good plants worth trying
If you can have wheat & gluten, give Seitan a try! Super high protein and kind of meaty taste
Quina, potatoes, chia, hemp, pumpkin seeds, mycoprotein (from mushrooms) are also worth using too! As well as stuff like oatmilk of course too
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
Yeah English prepositions can be a little weird sometimes like that
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
“for” usually means the first thing is replacing the second. If it said “with” than it’d go the other way
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry if we all switch to something woker like Tofu, we just might avoid this fate
- Comment on Ah, Beans 2 weeks ago:
I might be contributing to both sides of this
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- Comment on They say "Change is slow" for anything that benefits the working class, but change is always instant for the Billionaire Class. 2 weeks ago:
The people saying it in good faith mean it takes time to build a coalition to actually get change through despite the powers that be fighting hard against it
The people saying it in bad faith are the powerful people making it take a long time
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if you mean this in like animal rights kind of way or like “I really fucking love beans” kind of way. Or both?
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 3 weeks ago:
So like this then?
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 3 weeks ago:
Who said this? Not I
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 3 weeks ago:
Of course, of course
- Comment on Continuing both the "this vegan shit easy" and bean trend on here 3 weeks ago:
Are you implying that someone could lie on the internet?
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- Comment on Grilled is the best 3 weeks ago:
It’s actually cheaper in the US, to note. The lowest income groups in the US are the one exactly the most likely to be vegan or plant-based
- Comment on Grilled is the best 3 weeks ago:
Even with subsidies, it’s still cheaper if you compare to whole-plant based diets and real world spending data. It’s only the pre-made plant-based meats and similar that are more expensive because they don’t yet have the same economies of scale
Seems like you are from Italy based on your instance? Studies have found overall costs lower in Italy for plant-based diets
- Comment on Grilled is the best 3 weeks ago:
The lowest income groups are actually the most likely to be vegan and eat the least meat, dairy, etc. around the world. The lowest income countries eat the least animal products
- Comment on Grilled is the best 3 weeks ago:
Even with subsidies, it’s still cheaper if you compare to whole-plant based diets and real world spending data. It’s only the pre-made plant-based meats and similar that are more expensive because they don’t yet have the same economies of scale
It found that in high-income countries:
• Vegan diets were the most affordable and reduced food costs by up to one third.
• Vegetarian diets were a close second.
• Flexitarian diets with low amounts of meat and dairy reduced costs by 14%.
• By contrast, pescatarian diets increased costs by up to 2%.
ox.ac.uk/…/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-…
Compared to meat eaters, results show that “true” vegetarians do indeed report lower food expenditures
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0921800915301488?via=ihu… (looking at the US)
Based on primary data (n = 1040) collected through an online survey, representative of the Portuguese population, through logistic regressions, it was possible to conclude that plant-based consumers, particularly vegan, are associated with lower food expenditures compared to omnivorous consumers. In fact, plant-based consumers are shown to spend less than all other consumers assessed
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 3 weeks ago:
This was for general diffusion model outputs a few years ago, but a lot of the speculation of why the outputs are similar likely hold here
There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models, Phillip Isola, a professor at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, told me, meaning the models might overlap in what they’re trained on. (One popular one, CelebA, features 200,000 labeled photos of celebrities. Another, LAION 5B, is an open-source option featuring 5.8 billion pairs of photos and text.)
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Five years ago, he explained, image generators tended to create really blurry outputs. Researchers realized that it was the result of a mathematical fluke; the models were essentially averaging all the images they were trained on. Averaging, it turns out, “looks like blur.” It’s possible that, today, something similarly technical is happening with this generation of image models that leads them to plop out the same kind of dramatic, highly stylized imagery—but researchers haven’t quite figured it out yet. Additionally, “most models have an ‘aesthetic’ filter on both the input and output that reject images that don’t meet a certain aesthetic criteria,” Hany Farid, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, told me over email. “This type of filtering on the input and output is almost certainly a big part of why AI-generated images all have a certain ethereal quality
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The third theory revolves around the humans who use these tools. Some of these sophisticated models [this is not as sophisticated as the author is implying] incorporate human feedback; they learn as they go. This could be by taking in a signal, such as which photos are downloaded. Others, Isola explained, have trainers manually rate which photos they like and which ones they don’t. Perhaps this feedback is making its way into the model
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This could be intentional: If such imagery has a market, maybe companies would begin to converge around it. Or it could be unintentional; companies do lots of manual work in their models to combat bias, for example, and various tweaks favoring one kind of imagery over another could inadvertently result in a particular look
- Comment on Grilled is the best 3 weeks ago:
I love the whole “this vegan shit is easy” meme format
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